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that's america. my parents and grandparents instilled in me the midwestern values, the same values that you pass on to your children -- family and faith, humility and hardwork. and they taught me to live with honor and courage and to never, never stop fighting for what i believe in. every one of you in this room, when you think of courage and you have to take that one big step or do something that you're afraid to do, you always think of something -- someone in your family, someone you knew in your life. for me, i always think my grandpa down there in those mines and back then it was so dangerous. they would hear the whistle and everyone would run to the mine because they didn't know who was killed or hurt that day. my grandpa worked in the mines a long time. a few years ago, i met a guy at a little restaurant up there in elie. he told me he came running up to me and said his dad worked with my grandpa and then he got promoted as foreman. all of them had to radio down when the guys went to a new and
that's america. my parents and grandparents instilled in me the midwestern values, the same values that you pass on to your children -- family and faith, humility and hardwork. and they taught me to live with honor and courage and to never, never stop fighting for what i believe in. every one of you in this room, when you think of courage and you have to take that one big step or do something that you're afraid to do, you always think of something -- someone in your family, someone you knew in...
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god bless america. [applause] >> one of the things i'm quite proud of is i serve as a trustee of the national world war ii museum in new orleans. part of the remarkable campus, about $160 million campus, another $169 to go, and incredible talent of the american role in helping, as they say, help americans understand the freedom is not free, and learn about these men and women who sacrificed so much to make sure we have the opportunity day, including the monuments been. the museum have so embraced this story that they will be the first place in the world to build a permanent exhibition to the monuments men sometime in the next two years that we will re-create a salt mine and give people both kids and adults the chance to experience the exhilaration, the fear, the remarkable journey that these monuments officers experienced during world war ii. of course, marlowe was kind enough to mention my new best friend, george clooney. [laughter] i certainly share all the reviews about this matter. it's been a wonde
god bless america. [applause] >> one of the things i'm quite proud of is i serve as a trustee of the national world war ii museum in new orleans. part of the remarkable campus, about $160 million campus, another $169 to go, and incredible talent of the american role in helping, as they say, help americans understand the freedom is not free, and learn about these men and women who sacrificed so much to make sure we have the opportunity day, including the monuments been. the museum have so...
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and was there a better way, it is the way for america to act and america to lead in the world? and like so many others in my generation, vietnam really was the impetus that opened up the world to us, even though i never got there. i didn't serve but it came right into our hometown. and it forced us to look beyond the atlantic and pacific, and appreciate that they complicated world. and when you go into the china shop, you've got to be careful when you throw your weight around. 40 years later, vietnam still recalls for me the ultimate purpose of diplomacy, and that's what we are looking at this week at chautauqua. can work amicably with other countries, with other religions with other people? what's the best way to avoid the war and conflict that we've seen in our country over the last 10 years? are we capable of meeting the difficult challenge, and it's an important one for all of us to matter what our faith is to reflect upon, can we deliver peace? that's our job. all of us. we know in our hearts it may never be possible. as the ancient greeks put it, may never be possible as
and was there a better way, it is the way for america to act and america to lead in the world? and like so many others in my generation, vietnam really was the impetus that opened up the world to us, even though i never got there. i didn't serve but it came right into our hometown. and it forced us to look beyond the atlantic and pacific, and appreciate that they complicated world. and when you go into the china shop, you've got to be careful when you throw your weight around. 40 years later,...
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she talks about women's lives at the time and what it was like to be america's first lady and not just the wife of an american mr. an american minister, but to be a wife and a daughter. >> the thing that i always think about with abigail is the relationship, the partnership. without abigail, there is no john. without john, there is no abigail.>> john is important to history. >> yes. with the support she provided to him in europe, in the presidency, in the vice presidency, she was so trustworthy that she could to -- take care of things. so he could go off and be this great public person, which was exactly what she wanted.>> to our guests, our thanks for helping us understand more about the life and legacy of america's second first lady abigail adams. thank you for your time. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> wednesday night, we continue our encore of the first season ladies," with dolly madison. , september 9, a look at the life of edith roosevelt. our website has a special section on the fir
she talks about women's lives at the time and what it was like to be america's first lady and not just the wife of an american mr. an american minister, but to be a wife and a daughter. >> the thing that i always think about with abigail is the relationship, the partnership. without abigail, there is no john. without john, there is no abigail.>> john is important to history. >> yes. with the support she provided to him in europe, in the presidency, in the vice presidency, she...
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we had the same in latin america. people my grated to vens with a lay from countries such as peru on a consistent basis for half a century. it's a wealthier country than venezuela. look at it this way as well. chinese immigration in the united states has played a key role in the growing economic prosperity of china, they have not only of course been able to export stuff and import stuff to them. they invested in china response i think that borders and barriers are really art initial term of the impact on the economy. we all benefit from the constant circulation as people. the same is happening in europe. some of the eastern -- or central european countries have been -- in the last few years. it became legal to do so. and yet they have been becoming more and more prosperous. poland is more prosperous. it export the an incredible amount of people to spain. >> i have some small things to add. he's 100% right. about the german 1848ers. they left behind complained about the liberals leaving. americans who experienced and m
we had the same in latin america. people my grated to vens with a lay from countries such as peru on a consistent basis for half a century. it's a wealthier country than venezuela. look at it this way as well. chinese immigration in the united states has played a key role in the growing economic prosperity of china, they have not only of course been able to export stuff and import stuff to them. they invested in china response i think that borders and barriers are really art initial term of the...
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they're trying to harm america. they're trying to strike america. what we need is we need all these tools. you mentioned the value of 702 versus 215. they are different. i make the analogy like a baseball team. you have your most valuable player, but you have the players that hit singles every day. the plot to bomb the new york subway system, as this record to playedness record 215 a role. it identified a number we did not previously know. >> was it a critical role? >> there was some undercover work. >> each tool plays a different role. i'm not saying that it is the most -- >> were the fbi aware? >> we were not aware of that specific telephone number, which nsa provided us. >> we did everything. we could have more security and every building america. we could close borders completely to everybody. we're are not going to do that. we could put a wiretap on everybody's cell phone in america if we search everybody's home. there are certain things, certain areas of our own privacy that we americans expect. at some point, you have to know where the balanc
they're trying to harm america. they're trying to strike america. what we need is we need all these tools. you mentioned the value of 702 versus 215. they are different. i make the analogy like a baseball team. you have your most valuable player, but you have the players that hit singles every day. the plot to bomb the new york subway system, as this record to playedness record 215 a role. it identified a number we did not previously know. >> was it a critical role? >> there was...
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summit in russia and on " washington journal conquer the 1963ook back at march on washington and how america has changed in the last 50 years. several live event's to tell you about morning -- the national is this group on health releases a survey on large employer help benefits. that is on c-span two at 10 eastern. also at 10 a.m. on c-span three, the center for american progress hosts a discussion on cuts to early education childhood programs like head start. the 50thmoration of anniversary of the march on washington on c-span including speeches by president obama, bill clinton, jimmy carter, and members of the family of martin luther king junior. our live coverage from the memorial begins at 11 a.m. eastern. one of the things i looked at was a lot of the county records, the counties where these colleges are. when you look at the colonial county records, you will have the name of the president or the name of the professor and then listed with their taxable property will be an enslaved person or two or three. brought their slaves to school? >> yes, if you look at the name of the president a
summit in russia and on " washington journal conquer the 1963ook back at march on washington and how america has changed in the last 50 years. several live event's to tell you about morning -- the national is this group on health releases a survey on large employer help benefits. that is on c-span two at 10 eastern. also at 10 a.m. on c-span three, the center for american progress hosts a discussion on cuts to early education childhood programs like head start. the 50thmoration of...
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easy spanish coming through latin america. portuguese and the lighter yellow-green. google search, think of it in an internet way whether it's facebook or twitter or whatever. people are online. people are networked. this has never happened before at this level. so it means we can really think differently. about how we approach these problems. and that we are really actually available to each other in ways that was never true in history to solve problems together and to collaborate in extraordinary ways. and so i want to flip a couple of images as we start start ofs that show that. sometimes i call it a jason c. things have become adjacent are next to each other digitally that whenever a jason before. so for example, this is a wonderful group of entrepreneurial youth in afghanistan, about 80 miles from the iran border. they just finished a computer science undergrad degrees and they're here founding 60 congress. this is a startup incubator. the same as we have in silicon valley, or in d.c. there's a new -- that's where the techies gather. so here, this wasn't there b
easy spanish coming through latin america. portuguese and the lighter yellow-green. google search, think of it in an internet way whether it's facebook or twitter or whatever. people are online. people are networked. this has never happened before at this level. so it means we can really think differently. about how we approach these problems. and that we are really actually available to each other in ways that was never true in history to solve problems together and to collaborate in...
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wrong for america. republicans have good a guess about how we can use market-based principles to actually drive down health care costs and to make health care better in quality and give people more choice, not less choice like what this president is doing to average americans with obamacare. and, finally, the defense of our nation. look at what is happening around the world right now. jennifer talk about in gaza. we need republicans indiana state senate. we need to hold people accountable for what happened to those four brave americans. [applause] and i can tell you that i'm not going to give up this fight. for the truth and to hold people accountable to make sure this never happens again. [applause] we can say the same thing for the irs, that the irs would target americans for their viewpoints. so absolutely wrong. and so this fight that you are engaged in, to not only here in new hampshire, but across the country, to make sure that we can win back the majority in the united states senate in 2014, and
wrong for america. republicans have good a guess about how we can use market-based principles to actually drive down health care costs and to make health care better in quality and give people more choice, not less choice like what this president is doing to average americans with obamacare. and, finally, the defense of our nation. look at what is happening around the world right now. jennifer talk about in gaza. we need republicans indiana state senate. we need to hold people accountable for...
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how do we help america create those jobs? it in america?e how do they do it in a way to make america believe again that and you can strong, dream about that american dream as well? 210 days into this calendar year, more than half the year gone by, only 81 of those days in the house. we've mentioned to the president we want to do more with him, interested in passing more than just one dozen bills in more than six months that we have been in congress in 2013. we are tired of voting to repeal the historic health care reform that today make sure that people with pre-existing conditions don't have to worry about losing their health insurance. to, this week, we are going vote for the 40th time to repeal protectionsecurity that americans now understand and need. ready to get to work with the president of the united states and we are ready to work with him to keep america working. the best way to reduce the deficit is to put americans back to work. let me yield to our leader, nancy pelosi. >> thank you, mr. chairman. enthusiastic meeting with the p
how do we help america create those jobs? it in america?e how do they do it in a way to make america believe again that and you can strong, dream about that american dream as well? 210 days into this calendar year, more than half the year gone by, only 81 of those days in the house. we've mentioned to the president we want to do more with him, interested in passing more than just one dozen bills in more than six months that we have been in congress in 2013. we are tired of voting to repeal the...
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i don't think that is america. so schools can raise prices to capture students who can pay full price. your harvard princeton and yale's will have a huge amount of demand for people who want to go so they can jack up the price as much as they wanted people are going to pay that because that grand is synonymous with achievement in american life. and what has happened is a lot of second-tier schools have followed suit and they also have raised their tuition to exorbitant levels that most people cannot pay. not to make the to make this school the whipping boy of the george washington university is one school that is kind of the exemplary of this. it's the most expensive school in the country but nobody would say it's not the highest quality. but it is capitalizing on the belief that price is anonymous with quality so if you are a parent or student who student who maybe is uninformed about the college process or informed and you see that in me think i send my kid there there will be a great shot at a high level of achi
i don't think that is america. so schools can raise prices to capture students who can pay full price. your harvard princeton and yale's will have a huge amount of demand for people who want to go so they can jack up the price as much as they wanted people are going to pay that because that grand is synonymous with achievement in american life. and what has happened is a lot of second-tier schools have followed suit and they also have raised their tuition to exorbitant levels that most people...
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this has happened to health insurance in america which we can see just by looking at the state of our country, but it also happened of finance again and again and again. some friends of mine who used to work at an outfit called long-term capital. remember that one. so long-term capital was an attempt to use big computing to make a perfect investment fund. it seemed too good to be true, so in order to create an air of legitimacy they hire a bunch of people who had nobel prizes in economics to be associated with it, and it looked perfect first. when it failed, it failed big. guess you paid for it? hello, all of you. you paid for it. there was another one called and ron. and ron was doing whatever the same thing. a great big computer. let's make a perfect investment because we can predict where risk is. i remember getting a call from enron. they want to buy my idols are up. i thought, no. we don't want to sell. we don't want to sell a little party star of the we love so much to some companies test the strength to take advantage of a competing. guess who bought it? cool. i love them. i'm
this has happened to health insurance in america which we can see just by looking at the state of our country, but it also happened of finance again and again and again. some friends of mine who used to work at an outfit called long-term capital. remember that one. so long-term capital was an attempt to use big computing to make a perfect investment fund. it seemed too good to be true, so in order to create an air of legitimacy they hire a bunch of people who had nobel prizes in economics to be...
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how do we bring back america to the people? that's what i want to know. >> i would just say what i said previously, there's no reason as far as i'm concerned where every black community in this country cannot have a house or a place in that community where young black people can go and have recreation and learning at the same time. not one. that requires what? collective economics. if there's a building in that unity that is into, nobody's using it, the community can get together, pool their money, fix this building up. teenagers hang out. they always have and always will. the community must provide a place where they can hang out. they can hang out in places that are not so cool? this is what i thought about what i'm talking about we have sufficient, we should always fight for our share of government money. you pay taxes, so this whole idea, i'm not talking about giving up campaigns to work with people to get the government money to any money the government gives them we pay taxes and pay, and i believe we pay much more taxes
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that would be a very different america. that is the america now on attack. lastly, on this i'm concerned that we appeal to the president. one of them is that we need -- we have sufficient motivation. we need a poll of that. the voter fact deserve if it's legal if there is an amendment for the right to bear arms it should be the right was no longer to be limited to various scheme or states with you deserve the constitutional right to vote. [inaudible] by police or security guards. -- [inaudible] price people don't have to pay when they do it. we have been hit the last two dais about the killing in north in oklahoma about the two blacks and the white kids that were driving. the kinds wasn't driving -- [inaudible] he walked away. he was not charged the same as others. he's not p the three. they compare it to the -- trayvon martin case. t not trayvon martin. it's two white and last june in oklahoma. [inaudible] it's all wrong that there is no joy, there are no victories in it. but the attempt to distort reality i think if we come out of this week about the last
that would be a very different america. that is the america now on attack. lastly, on this i'm concerned that we appeal to the president. one of them is that we need -- we have sufficient motivation. we need a poll of that. the voter fact deserve if it's legal if there is an amendment for the right to bear arms it should be the right was no longer to be limited to various scheme or states with you deserve the constitutional right to vote. [inaudible] by police or security guards. -- [inaudible]...
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america was already tied -- tired of that. pakistan had grown convinced that we were likely to fail in the region. so we were trying to do this against this big wall of skepticism and so is aidala the afghans it was really the case can the mets win the 69 -- that's a question actively. we have to first prove he could do things on the ground in certain areas and we had to try think age people particularly people like the pakistanis and say things that we can do this. it's in your interest that we succeed because the taliban run afghanistan is the worst possible outcome for pakistani stability. i don't think any of that was wrong. i still believe that assessment was absolutely accurate read what did we do? we went and we pushed. i spent a lot of time in pakistan with general kayani and other leaders to get them to believe that i think and maybe i am pollyanna-ish, i think i've been moving to where they thought we had a chance to be successful but in a one-on-one moment general kayani looked at me and i laid out my strategy and h
america was already tied -- tired of that. pakistan had grown convinced that we were likely to fail in the region. so we were trying to do this against this big wall of skepticism and so is aidala the afghans it was really the case can the mets win the 69 -- that's a question actively. we have to first prove he could do things on the ground in certain areas and we had to try think age people particularly people like the pakistanis and say things that we can do this. it's in your interest that...
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and in america it's about one in eight. if you look here in dallas county where we're seated now, it's about one in four. so really, i think, we couldn't be at a much better place in america to have this discussion right now. and i'm joined by a fabulous panel of experts both on texas and nationally, and they're going to enlighten us and sort of unpack this relationship between growth and immigration here in texas. so i'll start with steve moore. many of you have probably seen him on tv, he's an editorial board member of "the wall street journal." he writes about immigration, taxes, fiscal policy and many things. i'm sure you've read his articles, you've seen him. he's been an advocate for years and a scholar on immigration even before he was at "the wall street journal" and we're just very privileged to have you here, steve, so thank you for coming. >> thank you, matt. >> something that you do well is you look state by state a lot. you do things we like here. you talk about growth and you look at the states and the evidenc
and in america it's about one in eight. if you look here in dallas county where we're seated now, it's about one in four. so really, i think, we couldn't be at a much better place in america to have this discussion right now. and i'm joined by a fabulous panel of experts both on texas and nationally, and they're going to enlighten us and sort of unpack this relationship between growth and immigration here in texas. so i'll start with steve moore. many of you have probably seen him on tv, he's...
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because the europeans were just fascinated with america. they said, here's a nation barely 50 years old, already competing with us on virtually every level. that's impossible. how could a fledging nation be doing that? he wanted to come here and dissect and see what the heck was going on over here, and while he was at it, he said, let me look at the school system, and he was blown away, anybody finishing the second grade was literate. he could find a mountain man who read the newspaper and could have a decent political discussion with them. he'd never seen anything like that before. you know, go and to some of the museums and look at some of the letters written by people on the frontier in the wild west. you'd think a college professor wrote the letters, the vocabulary and grammar the way it was done. there was a lot more emphasis in times past. if you really want to be blown away, get a hold of the 6th grade exit exam from the 1830s. there are questions in the book, "america the beautiful," from app exit exam. see if you can past the test.
because the europeans were just fascinated with america. they said, here's a nation barely 50 years old, already competing with us on virtually every level. that's impossible. how could a fledging nation be doing that? he wanted to come here and dissect and see what the heck was going on over here, and while he was at it, he said, let me look at the school system, and he was blown away, anybody finishing the second grade was literate. he could find a mountain man who read the newspaper and...
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was there a better way or different way for america to act or lead in the world? like so many others in my generation it was the impetus that opened the world even though i never got there. i did not serve but it came right into our home town and forced us to look beyond the pacific to appreciate that is a complicated world when you go into the china shop you have to be careful when you throw your weight around. 40 years later vietnam's still recalls for me the ultimate purpose of diplomacy. . . s. ancient greeks put it it will never be possible they set this tame the savageness of man that we know we have to try. our path will be eliminated via phrase robert kennedy used in his brief and tragic run for the presidency in 1968. he said that one of the purposes of our country must must be andes or tennyson's words alfred lord tennyson to seek a newer world, to seek a newer world from the broken world that we inherited after those trials and tribulations of the 1960s. that's not very different from some of the challenges that we inherit here in 2013. for me that's th
was there a better way or different way for america to act or lead in the world? like so many others in my generation it was the impetus that opened the world even though i never got there. i did not serve but it came right into our home town and forced us to look beyond the pacific to appreciate that is a complicated world when you go into the china shop you have to be careful when you throw your weight around. 40 years later vietnam's still recalls for me the ultimate purpose of diplomacy. ....